Disabling the 'Aero Blur' from the Windows 7 taskbar (using C++?)

Question

I found a small program a while back that let me disable the Aero Blur while keeping the transparency that came with the theme. The program worked on literally everything, except for the taskbar which still appears to blur everything that happens to be underneath it.

This curious behavior led me to experimenting with the DWM api, in C++. Sadly, this didn't really help me at all, since no matter what functions I'd use - like DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow() -, none of them would actually affect the taskbar in a way that I wanted them to. I even tried turning the alpha levels of the taskbar's owner "window" down, but sadly that didn't work either - It made the taskbar icons transparent too which is a no-no for me, and it didn't actually remove the blur it just made the effect weaker.

As it seems that my skills are not enough to accomplish this task, I'm asking you - how can I remove the Aero blur from the Windows 7 taskbar? (Possibly using C++)

Answer 1

I found a small program that will remove the blur.

Link to DeviantArt

Answer 2

Remove Transparency that will do, else go to

Personalize by right clicking on desktop.

There go to theme, personalize the theme,

and find transparency/opacity. if you want with no blur and enabled transparency make it 100%

else disable transparency.

this you can do using c++ by doing twiks with Registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"Composition"=dword:00000000
"CompositionPolicy"=dword:00000000
"ColorizationColor"=dword:6b74b8fc
"ColorizationColorBalance"=dword:00000008
"ColorizationAfterglow"=dword:6b74b8fc
"ColorizationAfterglowBalance"=dword:0000002b
"ColorizationBlurBalance"=dword:00000031
"ColorizationGlassReflectionIntensity"=dword:00000032
"ColorizationOpaqueBlend"=dword:00000000
"EnableAeroPeek"=dword:00000001
"AlwaysHibernateThumbnails"=dword:00000000

this are the values for Windows 7,

if you will change here, you will get the result. it contains all things you need to change.

you may change values for this three ColorizationBlurBalance, ColorizationGlassReflectionIntensity, ColorizationOpaqueBlend

I think that will do :)